Coming down quickly from the excitement of getting Antergos GNOME set up to my liking, as I realized there was no proper way to configure the greeter image and otherwise personalize it. A quick discussion in the Telegram group baffled me as it led me to more pages and posts about how to set a custom image in the greeter. The methods I’ve found across the web involve manual placement of an image in the Antergos wallpapers folder, followed by allocating it proper permissions… WHAT?! This is a joke, right? If this isn’t correct and there’s an actual method of doing this via proper configuration GUI, please by all means I’d love to be wrong, but in the case this is actually the method of performing this operation, is there a valid reason for this? I don’t mean to be curt, but once again, I’m baffled.

WHAT?! This is a joke, right? If this isn’t correct and there’s an actual method of doing this via proper configuration GUI, please by all means I’d love to be wrong, but in the case this is actually the method of performing this operation, is there a valid reason for this? I don’t mean to be curt, but once again, I’m baffled.

Please, if you feel that copying your image and editing a text file is too much work, feel free to write an app that does that. All users that do not know how to edit a text file will be grateful.

At this point, should it be? That somewhat goes along with my surprise. Why use a custom greeter if it’s not completed yet? To be clear, I’ve already cp’d my image where it needs to be, that’s not the issue. The issue is that no one seems to be able to provide a reason for such a silly method to be necessary.

@karasu Oh, I know how to edit a text file. If you want to be snarky, I’m sure you’d be happy to give me an explanation as to why something like this is the method of changing the image rather than a configuration tool? Unless of course you don’t actually have one, so you defend the current method?

Things are really heating up here, @Schyken! It didn’t really seem to me like @karasu intended to seem snarky, I think he was just tired. Everyone needs a break, and it must certainly be difficult when your masterpiece is criticized. Normally he is the kindest, most helpful developer on the Forum (in my humble opinion at least). I could also point out that your comment, “WHAT?! This is a joke, right?” and “is this actually the method of performing this operation” both come across as dripping with sarcasm. I’m not saying that that is what you intended, but just that every one needs some grace sometimes. Who knows? Maybe they are just having a bad day or they communicated poorly.

Keep trying, never give up. In the end, you will find that it was all worth it

@Keegan Ah, I see how it could be taken as sarcasm. It was quite frankly just surprise. I’ve never really come across any distro+desktop combination that doesn’t have a simplistic (typically) GUI method of altering the greeter wallpaper. Certainly there’s a lot of good things to say about the greeter which I do really like in every other aspect. This was purely surprise at what I considered an oversight. I’m sure it’s not intentional, and I’m not accusing anyone of omitting such a feature intentionally either, I was just confused as to why this was the case. A quick sudo cp did the trick, but I’m sure no one not already familiar with this is really too fond of this method, just as I wasn’t.